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Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) A “special counsel” who has no idea what the word “justice” actually means. – Looking for all the world like a doddering, poorly-aging man in need of assisted living care and sounding like a stammering, nervous wreck, Gestapo Chief, er, Special Counsel Robert Mueller got in one final despicable smear at President Donald J. Trump today in a press conference at which he refused to take questions. Reading haltingly from a prepared text from which he never strayed, the man who spent 20 months conducting a depraved witch hunt designed...

Tweet by Cuomo Prime Time: "The President of the United States would be in handcuffs, criminally charged, but for the fact he is the sitting President," says Senate Judiciary Committee member Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, reflecting on Robert Mueller's words today.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says special counsel Robert Mueller "made it clear" Wednesday he wanted Congress to impeach President Donald Trump. Mueller earlier in the day made his first public statements on his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, saying Justice Department policy prevented him from bringing charges against a sitting president or filing sealed charges, telling reporters it was "not an option we would consider."

At San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said former Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller needs to testify, and that she's not ready for impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Melissa Caen reports.

One of the deepest, darkest secrets of Russiagate soon may be unmasked. Even President Trump may be surprised. Multiple witnesses have told Congress that, a week before Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, Britain’s top national security official sent a private communique to the incoming administration, addressing his country’s participation in the counterintelligence probe into the now-debunked Trump-Russia election collusion. Most significantly, then-British national security adviser Sir Mark Lyall Grant claimed in the memo, hand-delivered to incoming U.S. national security adviser Mike Flynn’s team, that the British government lacked confidence in the credibility of former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s Russia collusion...

If the treasonous DeepState/Democrat coup conspirators try to impeach President Trump on their trumped up charges, we'll have to have the mother of all MAGA rallies on the mall! Can you imagine 30 million mad-as-hell patriots flooding every street in DC, marching in support of our president and our nation? And being the fighter he is, I can imagine him leading the charge in person.

In case you missed it Wednesday morning, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller made a statement from the Justice Department about the two-year long investigation into the 2016 presidential election. "I'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete," Mueller said. "We are formally closing the Special Counsel's office and I am resigning from the Department of Justice to return private life." "I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak to you in this manner. I am making that decision myself," he continued. "I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further...

Special prosecutor Mueller’s statement upon the shuttering of his two-year investigation into the Trump campaign was weird even by the standards of the weirdness of the past couple of years. “Charging the president with a crime was not something we could consider,” he reported. Indeed, even pursuing that question, he added, would have been unconstitutional under long-standing Justice Department guidelines. But then he said that if his office could have exonerated the president, it would have: “If we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” Granted, he said pretty much the same...

Robert Mueller's eight- to nine-minute statement Wednesday morning at the DOJ was designed for one thing only: to avoid having to answer one key question in his testimony. When did you know there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia? If the answer, as many, including Andrew C. McCarthy, are indicating, is somewhere in Fall 2017, what in the Sam Hill was Mueller doing putting the country through two years of prolonged agony? It's not likely he did all this to prop up CNN's faltering ratings. Was it, just by chance, to induce obstruction from one Donald J....

Neither life nor politics are fair – which is demonstrated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s current situation: whether or not to allow the House of Representatives to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. After all, President Trump was the target of a special prosecutor who could not determine whether or not the president committed obstruction of justice. Yet, Pelosi is the most uncomfortable. She is caught between progressives who want the president impeached yesterday and moderates who don’t want any discussion of impeachment at all. The statement by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday certainly won’t help matters. In...

Shortened title. Full title: Office of Inspector General Finds Top FBI Official Illegally Leaked to Media – Including Sensitive Info Sealed by Fed Courts – DOJ DECLINES PROSECUTION The Office of Inspector General announced Wednesday findings of misconduct by an FBI Deputy Assistant Director for “unauthorized contacts with the media, disclosing law enforcement and other sensitive information to the media, and accepting a gift from the media.” Despite the fact that this senior FBI official, who was not named in the summary, clearly broke multiple laws, the Department of Justice declined to prosecute the individual. The OIG investigation concluded that...

He’s right, although all complaints about Barr’s summary ultimately have to reckon with the fact that (a) he released nearly the entire Mueller report within three weeks of its submission, (b) the baseline finding, that there wasn’t probable cause to believe Trump conspired with Russia, tore the heart out of Russiagate suspicions, and therefore (c) it’s hard to believe that Barr’s characterization of Mueller’s findings mattered much to public opinion. Nothing seems to matter much to public opinion when it comes to Trump, after all.Although I think I know what Amash would say to all of that: Who cares?...

Speaking from the Department of Justice Wednesday morning, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said he is retiring and returning to private life. The Special Counsel's office on this case is officially closed and up until this point, Mueller has been a DOJ employee. "I'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete," Mueller said. "We are formally closing the Special Counsel's office and I am resigning from the Department of Justice to return private life." For weeks the Special Counsel's 400-page report on the investigation into the 2016 election has been questioned, with Democrats and Republicans calling on Mueller to testify...

RUSH: So, I just checked the email during the break, and I got an interesting email from a listener, interestingly enough, out on the feces-strewn streets of San Francisco. It was, “Rush, you might be missing this. Isn’t it true, Rush, that the president probably would benefit from being impeached?” Meaning: Wouldn’t that revive and coalesce his base? “And isn’t that why the Democrats haven’t really done it, because they know that the public is opposed to it.” All the polling data shows the public is not in favor of impeachment, and additional polling data shows that most Americans want...

RUSH: You can also look for the media to create a new chorus today, and that is that the attorney general lied and misrepresented what the special counsel told him. During his press conference announcing his analysis of the Mueller report, the Attorney General Barr said that he specifically asked Mueller if the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines (i.e., you can’t indict a sitting president) played any role in your decision not to charge the president with any obstruction? Barr said that Mueller told him “no,” the guidelines had nothing to do with it. So Mueller goes out there today...

On his award-winning and widely-heard daily radio program Wednesday, talk giant Rush Limbaugh tore apart special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement earlier in the day in which he proclaimed that his Democrat-and-Hillary Clinton-donating investigators could not say with certainty that POTUS Donald Trump did neither “colluded” with Russia or ‘obstructed’ justice. Noting that Mueller is reversing what he apparently told Attorney General William Barr three times — that his team did not consider longstanding Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted when they refused to do so after completing their probe in March — Limbaugh said the special...

RUSH: Okay. So, now we know the evidence is clear, the evidence is in. What we have suspected all along is the case. The special counsel, Robert Mueller, wanted to nail President Trump and still wants to nail President Trump. There is no difference between Robert Mueller and any Democrat or member of the media in that town. The only problem that Robert Mueller had was there isn’t any evidence to nail the president, and so he is attempting to imply that the president committed all kinds of crimes, but, in the end, Robert Mueller says Department of Justice guidelines...

At a hastily arranged Wednesday press conference, Special Counsel Robert Mueller proved that he was never interested in justice or the rule of law. If there were any doubts about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s political intentions, his unprecedented press conference on Wednesday should put them all to rest. As he made abundantly clear during his doddering reading of a prepared statement that repeatedly contradicted itself, Mueller had no interest in the equal application of the rule of law. He gave the game, and his nakedly political intentions, away repeatedly throughout his statement. ... According to Mueller and his team, charged...

RUSH: Right now the formerly bulbous Jerry Nadler is doing a press conference. Ahem. He is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He’s reacting to Mueller, and I didn’t need to listen to this to know what Nadler’s saying. The Formerly Bulbous Jerry Nadler Confirms All of My Suspicions May 29, 2019 RUSH: Right now the formerly bulbous Jerry Nadler is doing a press conference. Ahem. He is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He’s reacting to Mueller, and I didn’t need to listen to this to know what Nadler’s saying. (chuckles) Mueller clearly gave these guys this mirage that...

“If we had confidence the president DID NOT commit a crime we would have said so. We did not however make a determination if the president did commit a crime.”